Richetta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Richetta has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1932. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Richetta, 1986
1 in 593,000
Richetta over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Richetta?
Richetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1986
- 1 in 593,000
- 6 of 3,556,724 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 286,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1986
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 410,890 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Richetta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 410,890 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Richetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Richettas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Richetta was born before 1963 — so the typical Richetta is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 26.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 172
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (56).
Is Richetta rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1953 (11)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Richetta
Richetta is not the most common spelling — Rhetta is, with 74.5% against Richetta's 25.5%.
- Rhetta74.5%621
- Richetta25.5%212
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Richetta around the world
Where Richetta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1958–1958#598in 1958
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Richetta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Richetta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Richetta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.